[118975] in Cypherpunks
Constitution, gun rights, et al
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Roach)
Mon Oct 11 17:58:03 1999
Message-Id: <3.0.6.32.19991011163830.00861100@mail.intplsrv.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 16:38:30 -0500
To: cypherpunks@algebra.com
From: Sean Roach <roach_s@mail.intplsrv.net>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Reply-To: Sean Roach <roach_s@mail.intplsrv.net>
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----
Hash: SHA1
I got this in response to something I said here. I decided to pass
it along to you.
>Date: Mon, 11 Oct 1999 14:03:19 -0400
>From: Steven Furlong <sfurlong@dataware.com>
>X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.05 [en] (WinNT; I)
>To: roach_s@mail.intplsrv.net
>Subject: Constitution, gun rights, et al
>
><In the cypherpunks list you talked about a semi-organized fighting
>force with trained leaders. You said you don't know the word to
>descibe it.>
>
>Sounds like a militia. In at least some implementations, the private
>soldiers, and I use the term advisedly, trained once in a while to
>familiarize them with group movements, but didn't have any other
>peacetime responsibilities. Officers were also "regular folks" but
>they got more extensive training in tactics, communications,
>logistics, and the whole shebang.
>
>That worked when the basic tools of war were the soldier's personal
>long guns and horse-drawn wagons, and the scope of the militia was
>much smaller, with all members of a company, including the leaders,
>being drawn from the same community. I don't know that it would be
>effective with today's complexity of weapons systems and logistics
>systems. The scale of military operations is another problem. I have
>some ideas on simplifying the technical systems. Bringing the scale
>of military operations back to a militia level is a political and
>social question, and I don't think it can be addressed in the US
>without some major societal changes.
>
>I'm sending this via email rather than by posting to the c-punks
>list because I'm not a subscriber to the list. It seems that I
>_could_ post, but think it would be rude. Feel free to quote this
>message if you want to post a response.
>
>
>Regards,
>Steve Furlong
>Former Captain, US Army <---- so I can argue from authority
> and you have to believe me
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----
Version: PGPfreeware 6.5.1 for non-commercial use <http://www.pgp.com>
iQA/AwUBOAJY1pHDoiHtqFDZEQL3kgCdF/NhMFuH+nxv1F7zP1btG+yu6dsAnR7B
7ifAutbkQtyvVVnooEBC4t1F
=2Om1
-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
